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To: Doug Fowler who wrote (4139)	12/30/1997 9:51:00 AM
From: Joe Antol	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Doug: "... see any errors in this logic?". No, of course not, but the fact remains no matter what they do, (even in your scenario), the critical piece IMHO is not pricing and packaging, it's "mindshare". Novell has (and "will still have") the same problem. They waited much too long and lost the mindshare to MSFT. The marketshare followed, and continues to follow. IBM is embracing NT, and integrated "MS" apps "big time". And like Novell, a superior product does not mean a thing. The CE/I/FO's a**es are on the line, and they are not recommending a major purchase of anything but Redmond. IOW, nobody wants or cares about Netware, or Corel products any longer. Rod knows this. Right, Rod? Leo, Mr. Bean: I'll pick it up for a buck or less and then ride it for a quick buck after the breakup and "takeunder". Happy New Year.

To: Doug Fowler who wrote (4139)	12/30/1997 11:08:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

I have no idea what the ramifications of that would be but clearly Corel doesn't have a marketing strategy of their own. That's what these marketing research services are for so why don't they use them? They haven't done a valid analysis of the potential for such a move on their own, that much is clear. They were so far off base with the 3.1 version that we have to assume their marketing research is nothing more than a guess.